Breaking with the Union
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1850
The Election of 1860
100
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
What is secession?
100
The act that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
The slave of an army surgeon from St. Louis. He was in a Supreme Court case.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
State that entered the union as a free state.
What is California?
100
The winner of the 1860 election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Senator from Kentucky who proposed a series of Constitutional Amendments to satisfy the south.
Who is John J. Crittenden?
200
The amount of money people who returned a suspected fugitive to a slaveholder in the south got.
What is $10?
200
This person is the chief justice of the Supreme Court and was from Maryland.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
200
The place that was divided into two territories.
What is the Mexican Cession?
200
The new party created in 1860.
What is The Constitutional Union Party
300
Believing that because the other states had a convention to ratify the constitution, they should be able to leave by the same process.
What is the southerns reasoning on being able to leave the union?
300
6 months in jail and $1,000 fine.
What is the punishment for helping a fugitive?
300
The amendment that was used by Taney for support. It stated that slaves were property and it didn't matter that he was on free land.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
300
The law that outlawed slave trade in the nation's capital and replaced the previous law of 1793.
What is Fugitive Slave law?
300
The states that got Lincoln most of his votes.
What is free states?
400
An amendment that was suggested by Crittenden to extend the Missouri Compromise line to this place.
What is the Pacific Coast?
400
The amount of money Commissioners who rejected a slaveholder's claim received for their services.
What is $5?
400
Case that Dred Scott said that if a slave is on free land it is free. Others disagreed and said slaves are property.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
400
The government gave this to Texas gave up its land claims in New Mexico.
What is Financial Aid?
400
Abraham Lincoln win upset these states.
What is the south?
500
The main reason the South lest the union.
What is abolishing slavery?
500
People who led the protest against the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are abolitionists?
500
The group of people that were upset by the Court's ruling of the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Republicans?
500
The idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The place where the republicans held their convention.
What is Chicago?
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